Friday, 14 November 2014

Students: Shooter was well-liked, fought over girl

SEATTLE -- Students and family members have identified the shooter at Marysville-Pilchuck High School as Jaylen Fryberg, a freshman football player who was recently crowned freshman homecoming prince. dissertation services.

Before the shooting, people who knew Jaylen Fryberg would describe him as a well-liked guy from a prominent family. Natalie Swaby reports. KING
KING 5 has learned Fryberg comes from a well-known large family from the Tulalip Indian Tribe and has relatives who have been leaders of the tribe and in the fishing community.

students shooter

According to students, on Thursday Fryberg had gotten into a fight with another boy over a girl. Fryberg turned to Twitter to express his anger over what happened, saying he was "broken" and using many expletives.

"He was very upset about that," said student Shaylee Bass, 15, who was shocked by the shooting. "He was not a violent person...His family is known all around town. cheap dissertation writing services for uk and usa students. He was very well known. That's what makes it so bizarre."

Students who witnessed the shooting inside the cafeteria at Marysville-Pilchuck High School described Fryberg as calm when he pulled out a gun and shot at least four people.

"He had a blank stare," Austin Taylor, who sat 10 feet from the gunman inside the cafeteria, told KING 5. "He was just, (his) face (was) calm during the whole thing."

"It was a very small pistol. It didn't look like an American pistol. It looked like some kind of very cheap weapon. It looked like his gun was jammed. He started messing with it and I ran out. I think his gun jammed and he got it back to working and he popped off a couple more shots."​

Fryberg was a football player and a well-liked and popular student, according to students KING 5 talked with. Just six days ago at a school football game, he walked around the track as part of the homecoming court as a homecoming prince.

Mary Jane Topash, a member of the Tulalip Tribe, says she knows Fryberg and his family.

"He was in our Tulalip newspaper that was just issued about him being homecoming prince. You think they are on the right path and you have no idea," said Topash.

"He was perfectly fine the day before. I remember talking to him. He seemed like the normal kid that we all knew," said Taylor. "He was always a very nice kid."

Marysville Police Commander Robb Lamoureux said the gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but he provided no other details.

The Associated Press contributed to this report
Post Credit: King5

No comments:

Post a Comment

Share us!